Lotus: Yet to Bloom
Indu Dhungana
On April 6, 2014, I landed at the Srinagar airport in my first visit to the fabled ‘paradise on earth’ called Kashmir. The...
Weighted Down
At the end of every year state government and Amarnath Shrine Board thanks each other for conducting annual Amarnath Yatra successfully. But what they...
Tonga Tourism
Now, Kashmir’s hospitality sector is modern, sophisticated and fast. But imagine how tourism was conducted in Kashmir in the 1880s, in absence of proper...
Rolling Junction
Engineering confused him, designs disillusioned him before business completed him. And today, a Bandipora boy is successfully running a fast food hangout in Srinagar....
The Meadows
On Kashmir’s tourism map, Budgam’s meadows appear icing on the cake. Amid downpour, as Tourism Minister Mufti Sayeed’s choppers landed in the meadows, he...
Buyer Tales!
It was a mélange of colours on display at the 6th annual international buyer-seller meet literally. Saima Bhat talks to buyers from across the...
‘Get Well Soon’
Amid the debate over cockroaches crawling out of the biryani in Srinagar, R S Gull argues that one of the key factors for a...
From Bang to Boom
After overcoming the parental hurdles, a young man driven by community sense started working to put Leh on tourism map. Fifteen years after, both...
Guests First
As rising levels in Dal lake made houseboats uncomfortable for the tourists, there was panic. It was felt in the official circles which prioritized...
A Tourist’s First Hand Account
by Mirsaad Imdad
I was in Kashmir when the flood started.
My family and I reached the Srinagar airport on a Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014. Along...
Un Fort-e-fied
Sitting atop Koh-i-Maran hill a 200 year old military fort is witness to Kashmir’s changing political fortunes. Safwat Zargar takes a walk around the...
Baltal Blaze
For decades local Muslims fed and carried Hindus to the cave shrine. Now when non-local stakeholders started meddling with their livelihood, a crisis erupted....
Train to Paradise
By: Seema Qadri
Trains, railway tracks and railway stations, whenever I recall them from the long-drawn-out list of memories from my childhood, I would always get...
Plundering Pahalgam
Despite high court banning fresh construction in Pahalgam influential people manage to build huge structures in eco-sensitive areas. Shams Irfan reports the daylight plunder...
Yatra: A Tradition Compromised
Yearly Amarnath Yatra was small, quick affair that the government would facilitate with the help of clergy. It was S K Sinha, the shrine...
